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Lots and lots of welding in this post. Photos are pretty self explanatory. And a first fit check of the buckets to get the bucket reinforcement brackets located properly:

Next in the queue was floorpan work, including that required leading up to welding in the subframe connectors. There were a few issues to deal with first. The drivers rear floorpan had been bashed down pretty good at some point along the way, and the passenger rear floorpan had a shoddy...

I’m using the 3M zinc coating. It seems to work okay. Everything has been blasted, epoxy primed, and seam sealed after welding. I’m using a Hobart 210 MIG running on C25 gas. I’ve gotten it to work successfully down to 22ga, but it is frustrating. I much prefer 16ga or thicker. I’ve never...

This post will address tunnel fab. In real time, this took a week of evenings, but here we’ll cover it in minutes! An initial fit test to assess my theory of whether this could all be done with factory metal. Transmission up for an initial fit check on the passenger side widening. I plan to...

I always struggle to keep build threads up to date, but I’ll keep chipping away here… Got the interior all pulled and ready to start tunnel mods. Pretty clean pans to start with. There’s a few spots here and there that will need to be rectified, but overall really solid for a 50 year old car...

That’s solid advice. My brother did an AAW harness in his T/A. He’s going to loan me the crimpers to set up this harness. I’ve done a lot of weatherpack and metripack stuff, but I’ve always struggled to do the Packards with my universal crimpers.

Okay, so this list will cover the Phase 1 Plan and parts gathering, right up until tear down, which gets us into the present. It’s been a while since I’ve had a performance car with a manual trans, and I’ve always wanted a pistol grip Mopar, so I leapt off the deep end and ordered a T56 Magnum...

It all started with an almost electrical fire… Driving back from brunch with the family and got that no good acrid burning smell, then gray smoke from the footwell (this is why I carry fire extinguishers, though luckily didn’t need it this time. Limped it home and tore into the wiring under...

Let’s see, I think that about gets us up to the present day snowball situation. Moving into the later part of last summer, I really just started driving the car. My top priority had shifted to getting the 300 to my brother’s place in TX for some temporary storage. There’s a story there, so I’ll...

It’ll be getting Liberty rear discs while it’s torn apart for the T56 swap, but that’s a post for a later day. I did that swap on my Volare when I upgraded it to power brakes, along with 12” Cordoba discs on the front and the same K-car booster/M-body master combo. I’m a huge fan it so far.

Next up was doing something about the four wheel drums. The previous owner claimed it was built for “mountain driving” with the 4.10s, but it had four wheel drums and no swaybars? When the 9.25” rear was swapped in, it got the big 11” drums came with it, so that’ll do for now. However, the 10”...

You ever settle on a wiring harness pass through location for the terminator? I’ve found that the terminator fits perfectly inside the old AM radio. I’m thinking about mounting it inside the old radio shell and depinning the harness to go through the old speedometer cable hole. I’m moving the...

The first thing to go was the gears. I drive about 50 miles back and forth to work, about half of which is interstate cruising at 75-85mph. 4.10s with no overdrive just wasn’t going to cut it for long. The diff in this car (along with the 400 and 727) came out of a 78 B-body. The suregrip was...

A little bit about why this car spoke to me… When I was about 10 years old, my dad decided the 73 Riviera GS455 was too big, and the 81 NASCAR Trans Am (swapped to a Poncho 455) was too small, and he was going to sell them both to get a midsized family car. What came out of that flurry of deals...

I’ve had my ‘72 a little over a year now, and things have really started to snowball, so I figured I’d take a swing at a build thread. Follow along if you want to see an engineer over-engineer and over-think every possible thing in his very non-numbers matching bucket list car. I’ve got some...

Who’d you go with for the new heater core? Four seasons? I’m getting ready to do this also. Torn over reusing the evaporator as is or taking it to someone to get checked out. Would suck to do that much work only to take it back out because it’s leaking.

Following for your TKX progress. I’m gearing up to put a T56 Magnum behind the 400 in my ‘72. Who did you get the trans stuff from?

You’re getting good advice to save the black one with parts from the wrecked 318 car. If you’re competent with metal fab, surely it can’t be that hard to come up with a sunroof plug until you can track down a replacement. Swap the drivetrain from the wrecked one into the black one and save the...